Against Eurocentrism

A Transcendent Critique of Modernist Science, Society, and Morals
2005. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-4039-6737-4
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 171 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 217 mm, Gewicht: 331 g

This book renders an uncompromising verdict on the 'scourge' of our millennium: modernism, itself the artifact of certain late Eurocentric propensities. Kanth argues that while modernism is possessed of some virtues, they are purchased at far too high a cost - indeed a cost that neither the species nor the planet can, on any scale, find affordable. Given the imminence and the gravity of this threat, he further suggests that no other posture is at all ecologically responsible. Kanth suggests, breaking with the manifold paradigms of European expansionism or find ourselves, soon enough, living on a planet damaged beyond recovery.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kanth, R.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART ONE: THE MODERNIST REVOLUTIONS The Ascent of Europe The Modernist Problematic: The Crossing of the Rubicon The Utopian Response: Mnemonics of Affective Society PART TWO: AGAINST MODERNISM: THERAPEUTICS, SALVES, AND ANTIDOTES TO THE MODERNIST DISTEMPER The Fatal Conceit: Elisions of Materialism On Human Emancipation: The Archaeology of Discontent

Über Autor(innen)

RAJANI KANTH is Visiting Professor of Economics at Duke University in North Carolina, USA.